Read full poem →This barren verbiage, current among men, 40.
Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
Dictionary Entry
A light, sharp ringing sound, or the sound itself.
In a Sentence
“The glasses made a pleasant clink as they were raised for a toast.”
Origin
Origin uncertain, possibly imitative of the sound.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “clink”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Hark! In the passage is heard the clink of armour, the tread of a heavy man.
The door bursts open and standing there, his thin hair wavering
Read full poem →His mother loved the clink of gold,
The odor and the shine
Read full poem →Of hammer, shoe, and anvil; out of the inn
The clink, the hum, the roar, the random singing--
The sounds that for these fifty years have been.
Read full poem →Clink, and rattle, and roar —
The old man looks around him
Read full poem →I thought them joys eternal when I used to shout and play
On its bank at "clink and bandy," "chock" and "taw" and "ducking stone,"
Where silence sitteth now on the wild heath as her own
Read full poem →An’ tips auld drucken Nanse the wink,
May Sautan gie her doup a clink
Within his yett,
Read full poem →For me, I'm on Parnassus' brink,
Rivin' the words to gar them clink;
Whyles daez't wi' love, whyles daez't wi' drink,
Read full poem →Braid money to tocher them a’, man;
To proper young men, he’ll clink in the hand
Gowd guineas a hunder or twa, man.
Read full poem →I doubt na, lass, but ye may think,
Because ye hae the name o’ clink,
That ye can please me at a wink,